SUMMER 2026 ON COURSE TO BE UK’S HOTTEST ON RECORD, SAYS MET OFFICE – AS IT HAPPENED

Prediction comes amid warning of ‘extreme heat’ this week with temperatures of 38C possible The Guardian’s environment editor, Fiona Harvey, has written a useful explainer about the UK public services that are… You can read it in full here: There’s only one solution in the end to the drought now declared across most of England and that’s rain, says Hannah Cloke, professor of hydrology at the University of Reading.

Climate crisis | The Guardian reports that prediction comes amid warning of ‘extreme heat’ this week with temperatures of 38C possible The Guardian’s environment editor, Fiona Harvey, has written a useful explainer about the UK public services that are…

The report adds: You can read it in full here: There’s only one solution in the end to the drought now declared across most of England and that’s rain, says Hannah Cloke, professor of hydrology at the University of Reading.

An important consequence of drought is that very dry soils can become less able to absorb rainfall when it does arrive.

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